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Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope

October 28, 2021

An Australian-built major subsystem for the European Southern Observatory’s 4MOST instrument has arrived in Germany at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) ready for testing prior to installation on the four-metre VISTA telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope

Volunteers wanted to help unlock the secrets of our Universe

March 22, 2019

Scientists are appealing for public help on one of the biggest astronomy projects of the next ten years. In a new citizen science project launched today—known as AstroQuest—researchers are looking for volunteers to study images of galaxies and figure out which light is coming from which galaxy.

Volunteers wanted to help unlock the secrets of our Universe